The End is in the Middle: MAD fold-in poems by Daniel Scott Tysdal
Taking inspiration from Al Jaffee’s illustrated fold-ins in MAD magazine, Tysdal explores living with mental illness through a new kind of poetry: the fold-in poem.
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Among the Untamed by dee Hobsbawm-Smith
By turns angry, powerful, visceral, evocative, and ultimately hopeful, this modern retelling of Joan of Arc in linked poems casts her as a prairie-born Jeanne Dark.
Take the Compass by Maureen Hynes
A strong theme of journeys is threaded through Take the Compass. Rich and nuanced poems that lead the reader to rivers, city outskirts, pandemic-closed cafés, forests, dream landscapes, daily treasures, and losses.
While Supplies Last by Anita Lahey
In While Supplies Last, her first collection in eleven years, Lahey throws herself on the mercy of a changing climate, takes refuge in art and revels in everyday wonders.
Church Grammar by Bruce Meyer
This latest book of poetry by Canadian master Bruce Meyer is one of his very best in a long and successful writing career.
Antecedent by Juleta Severson-Baker
Antecedent, Severson-Baker’s second collection, is a ferocious and candid outcry from the West.
Indie Rock by Joe Bishop
Indie Rock candidly focuses on a queer poet/musician’s life in Newfoundland and his personal struggles with addiction, OCD, and trauma.
Nightlight by David Barrick
Patterned on a series of dream states, David Barrick’s Nightlight delves into the surreal nature of the human imagination, even at its most unconscious.
Midnight Moon by Karaline Alessia
Midnight Moon is a poetry collection that discusses women empowerment, magic, life’s hardships, and will dig deep into the inner thoughts of the soul.
Wild Kin by Marlene Grand Maître
Running through many of the poems is a longing for connection with our “wild kin” of the title . . . At the same time, there is acknowledgement of a certain distance between humans and the fauna and flora surrounding us.
Excerpt: Rebellion Box by Hollay Ghadery
Two poems excerpted from “Rebellion Box” by Hollay Ghadery.
Theophylline: A Poetic Migration by Erin Moure
Theophylline is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage.
Discipline N.V. by Concetta Principe
Discipline n. v. is a lyric memoir that fuses poetry and academic theory, speaking to the metaphorical power of humanities scholarship.
Tender by Sylvia D. Hamilton
The poems in Tender chronicle the experiences of Black people, especially of Black women, in their quest for self- determination and their desire to live full, complex, unencumbered lives.